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Mister Kingdom posted:Like the identify the song thread, let's post stories/books whose title/author you can't remember. Is it Billenium, by J.G. Ballard? This story is about due to super overpopulation, all usable land has to be claimed for raising food, and people are forced into super crowded urban areas. There is a government mandated quota of 5 sq. ft per person (which gets smaller every year). The story is about 2 friends who move in together after they each get kicked out of their singles since the quota has just gone down again and their one-person apartments become reclaimed and rented out as doubles.
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I remember reading a book (may have been part of a series, the ending made it seem like it was the first book) about a soldier who was part of some kind of galactic police force. Anyway, his whole planet somehow gets wiped out and he is infected with whatever killed the rest of his planet but is saved by some secret society. I think his bones were unbreakable too? and he may have been telepathic. In the book I read he is on a search for possible survivors and also for the person responsible for this (I think he was called the One so... not very original/helpful) (i read this in the early 90s)
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Mar 19, 2008 21:28
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LittleSunshine posted:Sounds like the Last Legionary series by Douglas Hill. Did he hang out with a bat-like extragalactic alien called Glr? Well I skimmed the wikipedia article and this is series I'm thinking of, thanks! I don't remember the name of the alien sidekick but now that I think of it there was one, it piloted the ship and stuff. (And I guess it was the telepathic one, not Keill)
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Mar 20, 2008 16:12
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I read a story/(book?) a while back where it was about how a team of genetically altered scientists were supposed to investigate this mystery spacecraft. Anyway I think it turns out the ship is actually a large chinese room experiment (I think) and they all get mentally and physically messed up by it. (Most/all of them die, i think) I feel like this was a pretty popular piece of work and that I should remember the name of it but it just isn't coming to me. Help!
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Dec 8, 2008 21:46
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OnlyLivingWitness posted:Blindsight by Peter Watts. This is it. Thanks, it was really bothering me.
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Jan 3, 2009 06:05
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XenoXiaoyu posted:Alright, I have tried Google to no avail. This was a short story (I think) that was even recommended here at SA a couple years ago. that would be The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect . (some guy from kuro5hin wrote it)
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Feb 25, 2009 23:39
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JustAurora posted:The book I am looking for is a "young adult" science fiction novel. It's a story about a girl who lives with her grandfather. He works with something having to do with star power or something. Somehow, he disappears, and the girl goes with another man to try and find her grandfather, I'm pretty sure they travel, and he's become a star or something like that. The other man turns out to be an evil rival scientist. There was also a subplot involving butterflies. I'm sorry this is vague, but I read it about 7 - 10 years ago, and cannot remember it full out. If you can understand and interpret what the hell book I mean, and tell me what it is, that would be awesome. Is it Heartlight by T. A. Barron? e: The butterflies weren't really a subplot if I remember correctly though, they were pretty important to the entire book. I want to say their names were Orpheus and Morpheus. roffles fucked around with this message at 06:38 on May 1, 2009 |
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May 1, 2009 06:34
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Boody posted:Wasn't Greg Bear and had discounted Michael Marshall Smith as have read most of his books including the horror ones. Although reading the synopsis of "Only Forward" I could be getting it confused with something else so will find a copy. Richard Morgan/Michael Marshall Smith seem like the right track, although recall the books containing a classic noir type detective more or less transplanted into the future, whereas they put more of a futuristic spin on main character. Well it doesn't sound like Morgan is exactly who you are looking for, since the noir/detective stuff is in Altered Carbon, but the girl on the run type stuff occurs in a later book Woken Furies. And if I recall correctly, Morgan pretty much drops all the detective stuff that I enjoyed in Altered Carbon in the 2 other Kovacs novels. But if you enjoy that kind of thing I'd recommend reading them anyway. (at least Altered Carbon)
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Jan 25, 2010 22:22
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EvilMoJoJoJo posted:Does the kid get killed at the end for exceeding his intelligence quota? There was a story with that plot in my GCSE Eng Lit anthology. This kind of poked at my memory a little bit and I found this short story: "Examination Day" by Henry Seslar that was apparently also turned into a Twilight Zone episode but it doesn't seem to be it. I don't know if I'm just mashing elements of Harrison Bergeron into it by mistake but I do also remember something where the kid's thoughts were being actively disturbed by something that prevented him from following through with his thoughts. Anyway, I think I read the short story that the original poster wants identified but I can't put my finger on it either and now it's bugging me. Maybe it was Examination Day.
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